In these various types, between the beginning of the century and his death in 1534, Wynkyn de Worde printed upwards of five hundred books which have come down to us, complete or in fragments. Thanks to the indefatigable energy of Mr. Gordon Duff, we possess now a very full record of his books, enabling us not only to estimate his merit as a printer, but to see at a glance how consistently as a publisher he maintained the entirely popular character which Caxton had given to his press. As regards books which required a considerable outlay, he was far less adventurous than Caxton, his large folios being confined almost entirely to those in which his master had led the way, such as the _Golden Legend_, of which he issued several editions, the _Speculum Vitæ Christi_, the _Morte d'Arthur_, _Canterbury Tales_, _Polychronicon_, and _Chronicles of England_. The _Vitas Patrum_ of 1495 he could hardly help printing, as Caxton had laboured on its translation in the last year of his life, and it may have been respect for Caxton also which led to the publication of his finest book, the really splendid edition of Bartholomæus' _De Proprietatibus Rerum_, issued towards the close of the fifteenth century, from the colophon of which I have already quoted the lines referring to Caxton's having worked at a Latin edition of it at Cologne. The _Book of St. Albans_ was another reprint to which the probable connection of the Westminster and St. Albans presses gave a Caxton flavour; and when we have enumerated these and the _Dives and Pauper_, produced apparently out of rivalry with Pynson in 1496, and a few devotional books such as the _Orcharde of Syon_ and the _Flour of the Commandments of God_, to which this form was given, very few Wynkyn de Worde folios remain unmentioned. But to one book in folio, Wynkyn de Worde printed some five-and-twenty in quarto, eschewing as a rule smaller forms, though now and again we find a _Horæ_, or a _Manipulus Curatorum_, or a _Book of Good Manners for Children_ in eights or twelves.[2]